Review – Body Snatchers (1993)

This time around they’ve stripped “Invasion of the” off the front of the title. Otherwise the clichés are all here. This time space aliens are taking over an army base, and only the intrepid teenage daughter of an EPA inspector and her chopper pilot boyfriend stand between the invaders and world conquest. Forest Whitaker and Meg Tilly were at one time respected actors, but now they’re just bit players, fodder for the pod people. The script and direction are mediocre at best, stealing (or maybe “borrowing” would be a nicer term) heavily from the previous entries in the body snatching sub-genre, including the point-and-scream shtick that helped make the 70’s version famous. The creepiest things in this whole picture were Gabrielle Anwar's nude scenes, because she looks like she's around 15 years old (thank goodness she was actually in her early 20s). See if desperate